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Alaska P. Davidson
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After the fact:
- 1972: The academy started admitting women again.
- The first two women were Susan Lynn Roley, a Marine Corps lieutenant, and Joanne Pierce, a former nun.
- Today 19% of women make up the FBI.
- There has yet to be a female director, but there are women that are high up in the FBI and working their way up to being director someday.
She trained in New York City
June 10th, 1924 Alaska resigned as am FBI special agent, after only two years in the bureau
The agent in charge of her said "This lady is very refined and could not work on every investigation where a woman could be used.” when she left he recommended that they put her on open cases that weren't "Rough"
Alaska P. Davidson was born in Ohio in 1868
Citations
Women in the FBI: Their stories
Amazing Women in History: Alaska P. Davidson, the FBI’s First Female Special Agent
She had three years of public education and no previous experience in law enforcement.
Alaska was the first
FBI: A Brief History
Female to become an FBI special agent at the age of 54,
October 11th, 1922.
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Alaska's supervising agent reported that he had no work for a female agent, and Hoover asked her to resign.
Alaska was married and had one daughter; Anna, when Director William Burnes appointed her as a special agent in Washington D.C.
Alaska died July 16th, 1934. She was only 66
Alaska P. Davidson
She was paid 7 dollars a day, and only 4 when she was traveling
On May 10, 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was appointed acting director of the Bureau of Investigation. He stated they he was going to get rid of any unqualified agents
I chose Alaska P. Davidson, because I felt that it was brave of her to attend the academy, because she was one of three women, and she must have known that there were going to be some gender and harassment issues. I also think that she was great in the fact that she put her age behind her. When she joined the FBI she was 54, so there were most likely some age issues, and she was probably one of the oldest, and a women, on a young mans work.